# Rider Reviews **Vendor:** JetBrains **Category:** [.NET Integrated Development Environments (IDE)](https://www.g2.com/categories/net-integrated-development-environments-ide) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 74 ## About Rider Rider helps you develop .NET, .NET Core,.NET Framework, ASP.NET, Xamarin, or Unity applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It provides outstanding editing support and code insight for languages used in .NET development including C#, F#, Razor/Blazor syntax, JavaScript, TypeScript, XAML, HTML, CSS, and SQL. Rider includes 2500+ live code inspections, hundreds of context actions and refactorings provided by ReSharper, all combined with IntelliJ Platform’s robust IDE feature set. Although it is heavily loaded with features, Rider is fast and responsive. ## Rider Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users praise Rider for its **intelligent code completion** and seamless Unity integration, enhancing their development experience. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **seamless integrations** in Rider, enhancing efficiency and ease of use for developers. (2 reviews) - Users value the **intelligent code completion** of Rider, enhancing efficiency and accuracy in their coding experience. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **vast variety of coding languages support** in Rider, enhancing their development experience across platforms. (2 reviews) - Users value the **extensive customization** options in Rider, enhancing their overall development experience and satisfaction. (1 reviews) - Users value the **excellent documentation** provided by Rider, which greatly enhances their coding experience. (1 reviews) - Ease of Use (1 reviews) - Easy Integrations (1 reviews) - Users appreciate Rider's **excellent IDE quality** , enjoying its toolkit, community support, and user-friendly experience. (1 reviews) - Implementation Ease (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **high licensing cost** of Rider burdensome, leading some to consider alternatives to Jetbrains. (1 reviews) - Users experience **high memory usage** with Rider, leading to poor UX, especially with multiple windows open. (1 reviews) - Users find Rider to have **high resource consumption** , making it less efficient than alternatives like Visual Studio Code. (1 reviews) - Users find **integration difficult** in Rider, struggling with slower features and manual code application compared to Visual Studio Code. (1 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** with Rider challenging, especially when transitioning from different IDEs like Visual Studio Code. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited features** in the community version restrictive and unsatisfactory for their needs. (1 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** with Rider, especially with GitHub Copilot and multiple open windows affecting usability. (1 reviews) - Poor Design (1 reviews) - Slow Loading (1 reviews) - Slow Speed (1 reviews) ## Rider Reviews ### 1. Powerful IDE with a lot of features. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael B. | Senior programmer and system analyst en Procter & Gamble, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2026 **What do you like best about Rider?** The intellisense feature, the customization, the plugin store, the IA integration across the whole IDE. The interface is clean and customizable, is cleaner than Visual Studio for long coding journeys. The performance, is almost the same that using VS; but the amount of features there is no match. The price gives a lot of value against VS subscription. I have the ultimate for years and I paid a fraction vs the VS Subscription just for use the VS.Net. The support is great, and all inquiries takes no longer than 2 days to responded. About the documentation, the JetBrains page gives a lot of content to onboard into the ecosystem easily. **What do you dislike about Rider?** I don't find anything to dislike, I can complain about the IA that is integrated as a must (Should be more option to disable and remove some integrations). The IDE is powerful, and this impact in the performance in PCs with low-mid specs. I'm aware of that, and I can accepted. Other code editors like VSC is great for agility, but there is no point of comparison an IDE and a code-editor. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm a developer in my daily basis, I'm a full stack with MS SQL, C# .Net, Azure, Blazor... everything works perfectly aside Rider I used DataGrip (From Jetbrains). And the integration is something that I cannot find in other suite of products. ### 2. Outstanding .NET IDE with Powerful Code Analysis and Refactoring **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2026 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider is an excellent .NET IDE with outstanding code analysis and refactoring tools. Its smart code completion, built-in debugger, and seamless integration with the .NET ecosystem make it a top choice for C# development. The UI feels clean and well organized, and performance remains great even when working with large solutions. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Startup time can feel a bit slow compared to lighter editors. From time to time, indexing large solutions takes a while, and the IDE may temporarily slow down during that process. The license cost can also be a factor to consider, especially for small teams or individual developers. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rider helps me streamline .NET and C# development with powerful code inspections, quick-fixes, and refactoring tools that save me a lot of time. It addresses the challenge of maintaining code quality in large ASP.NET projects, and it integrates smoothly with Azure DevOps and my Git workflows. ### 3. Boosts Unity Development with Intelligent Code Completion **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vishal L. **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2026 **What do you like best about Rider?** I like Rider because it shows complex structures that other IDEs don't provide, and it's great for tracking frequently called methods. Its code completion techniques are very intelligent and perform better than others. I appreciate the flexibility in showing method names and method case errors. It also connects seamlessly with Unity, making the integration very smooth and efficient. The setup is straightforward, which I find convenient. **What do you dislike about Rider?** So, the plugin support that works seamlessly in Visual Studio Code doesn't have a similar experience on Rider. It's very hassle toward integration. For example, with Copilot, the text generation isn't as fast and efficient as in Visual Studio Code. Also, in line chat, when there is code completion or errors, the suggestion provided cannot be directly applied to the code itself. I have to copy and paste it manually inside. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rider helps me find symbols easier and offers intelligent code completion techniques better than other IDEs. ### 4. Easy to Use, Straightforward Setup, and Developer-Friendly Integrations **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Maria G. | Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2026 **What do you like best about Rider?** It’s easy to use and straightforward to configure, with all the connections and integrations a developer would need. **What do you dislike about Rider?** The interface isn’t as clear as it could be, so the initial configuration and getting started take a bit longer than they should. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** It’s a solid replacement for Visual Studio Code. The interface makes it easy to view and work on your code at the same time, and it integrates smoothly with Git workflows. ### 5. Powerful IDE That Gets the Job Done **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason M. | Software Manager, Manufacturing, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 23, 2026 **What do you like best about Rider?** Powerful IDE Strong .NET and C# tools Can use one license on both my PCs **What do you dislike about Rider?** It is a real resource hog compared to visual studio code You have multiple IDEs in Jetbrains to work in different languages Subscription cost increases is pushing us out of Jetbrains Unfamiliar ecosystem when coming from something else (you can use plugins that make it feel more like others) **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have some wild live pricing projects that Rider allows us to maintain/debug pretty much out of the box ### 6. The complete IDE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** EDUARDO P. | Fullstack developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2025 **What do you like best about Rider?** On a certain day, I was working with Visual Studio and got a problem with versions of .NET in a Windows computer, so I opened the Rider IDE and Rider could comprehend the error in a path of .NET versions and worked perfect because it understood the mistake and provided the tool to continue my working without any error while the Visual Studio didn't work properly and didn't provide any correct suggestion to correct the bug. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Sometimes is a let bit slowly couse my old computer =) **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rider resolved my problem with the .NET path and PackageManager, including the versions of .NET more quickly than Visual Studio, and I'm very surprised because VS is from Microsoft and maybe VS should be more intelligent, but no. ### 7. Easy friendly and with powerful tools **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amin C. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2025 **What do you like best about Rider?** I love the toolkit, the extensions and the customization that it has. It has a great community and the proper company has gives you a big support. It's easy to use and the user experience is quite good. From VS Studio to Rider and I am not regreting it at all. **What do you dislike about Rider?** The integration with GitHub copilot could be better, sometimes it has a lot of issues with memory and sometimes is not functional when you have 2 Rider windows opened, this is quite bad UX but with all other things it could be acceptable. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I prefer to use Rider in Unix/macOs laptops than any other IDE. ### 8. JetBrains Rider **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2025 **What do you like best about Rider?** Vast variety of coding languages support, Awesome IntelliSense feature. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Community version has limited features only. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use and interactive IDE for project solutions with proper folder structure. Autocorrect and IntelliSense system is so powerful that point out the errors, warnings as well as wrong naming conventions. ### 9. An eclectic solution to .NET development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhammad Arifur R. | Mentor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider allows the user to preserve keyboard scheme from Resharper or Visual Basic - which is very convenient for switchers. It also allows full customization of keyboard shortcuts according to the user's preferences. Navigating across files and searching for features is very easy - thanks to its combined file and action search. Code Cleanup is very helpful for independent developers like me because it simplifies my code to a great extent. Find and Replace feature can even work across files to omit duplicate instances. The Debugger is even capable of decompiling the source code to locate faulty functions. Rider is efficiently capable of maintaining multiple projects in a centralized manner. **What do you dislike about Rider?** I had to make my own template as default templates were not exactly suitable. Setting up the debugger with environment variables seemed a bit counterintuitive. After debugging codes, changes will not be visible until a run is stopped and the solution is rerun - which was quite confusing. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a web developer, I am using Rider to build web applications in C#. Alternative IDEs that I considered were either resource-hungry or inadequate to fulfill the requirements for my projects. With Rider, I have been able to utilize the features of other IDEs in an optimized manner. Rider has been a fully-fledged solution for me to work on both ends of my projects (front-end and back-end) simultaneously. ### 10. Most Efficient .NET Editor **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeff M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** I really love all of the Jetbrains suite of IDEs. They are easy to use, and the ability to synchronize settings across IDEs is very helpful! It was very easy for our team to switch from Visual Studio to Rider. The many plugins and simple UI are really nice. I feel that the out-of-the-box features are also a bit more advanced than Visual Studio. Pricing is also very competitive! **What do you dislike about Rider?** One of their biggeset downsides is the lack of integration with legacy systems for developing .net software for Windows. The language support for VB.net leaves some to be desired, and the lack fo a drag-and-drop editor for WinForms makes Visual Studio much more appealing. It is also harder to find good project templates for Rider, as it is not as commonly used. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Rider for developing desktop applications, lambda fucntions for AWS, and software plugins. Rider's many plugins and easy configuration makes it a breeze. ### 11. Using this a lot in dotnet environment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krismar A. | Web Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Rider?** One of the thing that I love on this is auto complition, suggestion and auto import of classess. I become more effecient this compare to visual studio code and visual studio. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Its hard to migrate my working environment The default config the size of text is too large, the spacing is too wide. Setting sass compiler quite challenging incounter some issue. This the issue is after setting up the sass compiler at first saving its compiles but after making changes on scss file it not compite automatically I need to delete the compiled file in order to apply my changes. after lot of searching there is a trick need to delete line of text in config after that hard time. This application works fine. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** the eliminate of manual typing of import class, the auto correction work well and the error message is correct compare to what i have in visual studio code if i type one incorrect word the whole code becomes red. ### 12. Best IDE for .NET **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paco V. | Coordinador de tecnología, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2024 **What do you like best about Rider?** The ability to run on Windows and Linux much better than other IDEs. Availability of many tools and plugins such as Copilot, Amazon Q, GitLen and others. **What do you dislike about Rider?** The only thing I dislike is that the annual license fee is a bit high. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can develop solutions in .NET C# on linux without the need to have a Microsoft Windows environment. ### 13. Rider: #1 for .net development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sri Vidya J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider is best IDE for .net development. The features i likes are 1. lightweight 2.Text highlighting 3. collaboration 4. Code folding 5. Auto completion 6. Jetbrains AI **What do you dislike about Rider?** I never faced any problem while using rider. But sometimes package installation and debugging run slower than usual. It's not a big problem. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** In my company, i am doing a project in asp.net. previously i use visual studio for this project. My laptop spec. is intel i5 6th gen, 8gb ram, 500gb ssd. While debugging my project, my laptop get stuck and visual studio says all threads are busy. And sometimes visual studio says not responding. So I switched to rider. Now there are no problem in debugging. ### 14. The most Visual Studio experience across platforms **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marco Adrian B. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** It really resembles Visual Studio skills and tools. Really user-friendly UI. It's really easy to develop for .NET using Rider. Has hot reload and really good integrations with cloud and Git. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Not free. I think it consumes more resources than VS and far more than VSCode. It would be better to be a lot more extensible like VSCode. Only for .NET. Not so many extensions. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** the lack of a good alternative to a dedicated .NET IDE like Visual Studio but for Mac (not counting VSCode). ### 15. Jetbrains IDE for .Net and C# **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider is the exact some as every other Jetbrains IDE, so once you learn one of them you know all of them so to speak. No suprises. The documentation compared to other IDEs is also superior in my experience. **What do you dislike about Rider?** It is much harder to assign custom keybinds in my opinion, such as creating one to open the last viewed tab. I also do not like its file search feature as it wont auto clear things that were in it before hand. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its is an IDE, it solves the all in one issue so you have an easier set up of an enviroment. ### 16. Tool which makes my work easier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arkadiusz B. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 23, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Debugging with rider is extremely easy. I use it every day and love amount integration with different tools. I dont think I can get back to using visual studio **What do you dislike about Rider?** Some of features in comparison to Visual studio are not available. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing software for clients ### 17. Best IDE for Unity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrick S. | Back End Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** What I like the most it is Unity integration, while working with Unity it's above other solutions. Code completion, theming, debugging are all great find cause usage even within Unity scene is also doable which a really a plus **What do you dislike about Rider?** laRider uses alot resources by default even in smaller project but it even more disturbing in bigger project CPU and RAM usage are really high, for CPU not too much but RAM usage high 8Gb of RAM can be gone just by opening a project **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rider solve code writing and debugging using Unity, int integrated terminal and got functionality make it easy to push, pull or do any other got related action. It find features make it easy to find keyword usage and the list goes on ### 18. The best IDE for game developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ilya R. | Senior Software Engineer, Computer Games, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Started using the rider four years ago. Before that, I used another popular IDE for Net, and often disowned Rider. However, I was introduced to this system by a friend of mine, and I was absolutely delighted. It works very fast, smart tips for writing code, creating your own templates, smart and fast refactoring, keeping to codestyle. Got my whole team hooked on rider, and I recommend it to everyone, especially novice developers. **What do you dislike about Rider?** The disadvantage is that the IDEs are not very flexible. Sometimes you have to write sub-modules in another programming language and have to use another similar IDE from the same company. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me and my team write clean code, automate unnecessary actions, and maintain codestyle. Works great in conjunction with git. ### 19. Rider Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Neslihan . | Game Developer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** It is the best IDE to work with Unity. I like its suggestions when writing codes and it is really fast. I really like the intellisense of rider. **What do you dislike about Rider?** There is nothing that I dislike so far. It is the best for me. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for IDE to write scripts in Unity. ### 20. Rider - Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** pranathi p. | Software Developer | Android app development, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider, like any other JetBrains product, does the best for developers with best suggestions and indicating warnings damn quick **What do you dislike about Rider?** I used Rider for coding C# scripting for my unity projects, maybe I might be expecting more, but during the merge conflicts of unity files,rider wasn't helpful **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Rider was the best IDE that I used for C# while learning .NET and while scripting for my Unity projects , since it has similarities with IntelliJ which I had used before ,It was easier for me to get used to it really fast ### 21. Best IDE forever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eduardo P. | Docente, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** I know about visual studio, but working with rider i see other cleanup space to be productive. Is a intuitive and ordened interfaz and have a nice place to work. The plugins too more eficient and confortable. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Maybe some interactions quickily like vscode to open simply files. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Organization option to use same tool with workers ### 22. About rider **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** It's is a very good platform for developing codes in many aspects and it is very helpful in developing and having so many features and shortcuts to developing the code. **What do you dislike about Rider?** As of now I dont have any dislikes on rider, Actually Its to good to use and habitat. A very good tool to use and develop the codes. All good for now and it is having so many features and shortcut is best part of it. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's very good to use rider for developing the code and it also has many methods and features to add is the best part here. If there is any bug or inconvenience on using the rider, It will be resolved by the team at once. ### 23. Rider review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya K. | AWS Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** UI of rider is good for beginners as well as professional **What do you dislike about Rider?** I felt that overall Speed of rider is little bit slower **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Well as this is confidential to share any details how it's helpful in our project but I would like to say that project directory navigation and search can be improved ### 24. JetBrains Rider Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Likith K. | SAP Financial Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** It's a good cross-platform. Support multiple languages like Javascript and xml. It helps in writing better codes and is easy to navigate as well. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Found it very useful for my professional life. Not faced any challenges so far. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Has good integration capabilities. Works fine on mac as well as on windows East to navigate and use. ### 25. a simple but effective developer tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Umesh B. | Business Head, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Customization helps to develop our projects in simpler way **What do you dislike about Rider?** Price is too high for small business like us **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** The integration helps in flawless working for us in project development ### 26. Outstanding IDE For C# Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RAJU K. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Very Simple to use good code intelligence. easy to install nuget packages. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Nothing till now. the only concern is pricing is very high but it's manageable. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dot Net development IDE ### 27. Valuable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhay A. | Cloud Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** It makes the development easy and more secure **What do you dislike about Rider?** Need more documention to debug errors. For now the documention is very limited **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to implement security code ### 28. Rider- The Cross platform app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shalvika G. | SAP Solution Manager Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Rider?** Helps to speed up the process of writing code with minimum errors **What do you dislike about Rider?** Takes time and patience to learn it's features **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Good cross platform support. Helps in improving quality of codes. ### 29. A great alternative to Visual Studio if you can afford it! Great for Unity development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew H. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Rider?** This IDE has very thoughtful and useful Unity integrations as well as great regular c# analysis that makes navigating your codebase and finding problems much easier. **What do you dislike about Rider?** There is no free option to compete with VS Community and you do not even have the option to buy a perpetual license. So if you are just a casual developer or student or your company doesn't want to pay for it you may be out of luck. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Rider primarily for writing C# code within the Unity 3D engine. A lot of Rider's features were made specifically for Unity development and are very useful. Examples are being able to see which prefabs in your project have a certain component on them. Or warnings such as '?.' on a type deriving from 'UnityEngine.Object' bypasses the lifetime check on the underlying Unity engine object when you try to do something like myButton?.gameObject or something. ### 30. One of the best IDE for .NET development **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Rider?** JetBrains IDEs have been a great choice for developers. In that aspect, Rider has features specially designed for .NET developers such as in-built package manager tools, plugins marketplace, and cloud deployment automation with Azure, AWS, etc. Which makes the Rider best out of the available options. **What do you dislike about Rider?** As a fully fledge .NET IDE rider got almost all the important features. but in terms of usability, it's a little heavier than the other IDEs in terms of RAM and CPU consumption. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** I would always recommend any developers involved in the .NET tech stack. The ability to automate and accelerate the development is definitely worth the investment. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** At our organization, we have been working with enterprise software development projects using .NET based components. Therefore with Rider, we have been able to accelerate our development and deployment process across our teams. At the same time, the ability configurations in terms of dependencies and packages in a more user-friendly manner help us to reuse some .NET projects and make the most out of our code. ### 31. Best IDE for .NET Developers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vithushan S. | Co-Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Rider?** As a .NET IDE, the Rider carries a lot more optimized rich features towards the .NET stack. The best out of best would be ReSharper & Very good plugins. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Rider works very well with all the features it got, but I think it will be great if there are any performance improvements as it's a little bit heavy compares to other options such as text editors. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** There are many options for .NET developers such as VSCode with few extensions, Visual Studio, etc. But where Rider performs well is with its plugins to comprehensive tools. for example, AWS resource management and deployments from the IDE are very easy using Rider. So I would strongly recommend RIder over the other options. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a software vendor, we have been using Microsoft .NET in our engineering pipelines. So tools like Rider help our .NET developers to stay productive and proactive while focusing on high-quality deliveries in the pipeline. ### 32. The absolute best C# IDE hands-down **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Rider?** Tons of refactorings, lots of hints, builtin memory and CPU profiling, decompiling and allocation tracking **What do you dislike about Rider?** Doesn't work well with some older tech like WinForms, and it lacks a Debug window for tracking Task objects. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's faster than VisualStudio and has more features. It gets out of my way and helps me write code and deliver features faster. ### 33. Rider with Unreal Best IDE Ever **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vincent B. | Principal Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Rider?** Shortcut, fast search, unreal log integrated, unreal related stuff **What do you dislike about Rider?** Sometimes it freezes and take all your CPU and memory, but that usually fixes with update until it happens again **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am way more efficient with rider on unreal than any other IDE ### 34. Great IDE with good features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Rider?** It is much more fluid than visual studio, the ide and layout make a lot of sense and are better organised **What do you dislike about Rider?** It doesn't really have great nuget support and using it to create Umbraco sites from scratch is hard **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** An affordable alternative to visual studio ### 35. I love it! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adrián H. | Interactive Media Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Rider?** It helps me code faster and easier. It also tells me when my code could be more elegant. Great integration with Unity too! **What do you dislike about Rider?** It's a little sluggish and takes a while to open. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** It pushes me toward good coding practices. ### 36. Best code editor **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Rider?** It has a good code intellisense which gives you a lot of code suggestions. Easy for debugging code. Light weight compared to other code editors. Good developer experience. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Some times the application loading time is more. Some times while debugging the app crashes. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** The had difficult time while debugging code for my projects with rider it became easy for me to debug code and eaiser to install dependent packages. ### 37. i like develop software using rider is easy and fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Program Development | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Rider?** multiplatform to develop app en .net and c# this is excellent apart of the rider has ReSharper to help with IntelliSense, so you have much power in one tool to develop fast and easy **What do you dislike about Rider?** is excellent but could be better for multilanguage such C, JS, and others but by the moment is a superb tool to develop app en c# and .net platform with multiplatform support **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating applications faster than other tools like a visual studio and the IntelliSense by ReSharper make this tool more valuable, and it makes to deliver more product more practical. ### 38. Rider Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Leonardo L. | Network Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 27, 2021 ### 39. The best tool for .net **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Savyaschin V. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Rider?** I have been using IDEA for many years so my workflow is shaped like that, with that in mind for me is a lot cleaner than Visual Studio when dealing with a complex task, It's not a big thing spending an extra minute at visual studio unless you spend a lot of your day with those little things and time starts to add up. Since I did the switch I'm a lot more productive since not thinking on those small task allows me to fully focus on the workflow. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Unit tests have failed me in the past and were not runnable, luckily a reinstall helped me to get rid of the infamouse error 134 **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** If you need to switch languages and you are an old IntelliJ user you'll fell right at home **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's my goto when developing new features for .Net or given maintanence to old code ### 40. Best tool for Unity Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Patrik D. | Web Products Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Rider?** I love that it is so easy to integrate with Unity, which makes it amazing to work with and boosts my productivity, since I had previous experience with the JetBrains ecosystem **What do you dislike about Rider?** Not much, maybe the load times on HDD, but I do realize that is more of a physical constrains and that SSDs have amazing load times **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** If you are a JetBrains user, and you have to work in C#, this is the tool you want to use **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I hated the fact I had to program C# in Visual Studio, so I was delighted when I found out that JetBrains developed their own IDE for C#, and even more delighted when I found out that it is soo easy to integrate it to work well With Unity. I have been using it since the EAP versions and I haven't looked back since! I also love how far the integration has come with having Unity stuff in the editor itself ### 41. Review for Rider **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Rider?** I use a mac book pro for work and visual studio is not as good for mac as it is for pc. Rider gives you the right tool to develop in mac and it is very similar to visual studio in pc. **What do you dislike about Rider?** There are some functionality that is different than visual studio. I use rider in mac as I would use visual studio in PC. And there are some things that it doesn't work very well in rider but over all I'm happy with it. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** I had a problem recently trying to add a reference to my project and rider wouldn't added it correctly and references already added in the project wont show up, it does work but they are not displaying. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can develop dotnet core projects in my mac and it when i share my work with my teammates i have no configuration problems. ### 42. An intutive tool to refactor the code **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Rider?** Cross-Platform development Unity Support Built-in editor Switching between multiple code branches works smoothly **What do you dislike about Rider?** Support for c programming Occasional code building failures Runtime in Linux environment is quite challenging **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** Highly recommend Rider for python and java development activities. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** An integrated IDE to implement changes in the testbed SW branches across different VM environments ### 43. Best way to create .net applications **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krystall C. | Application Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Rider?** It's a lot easier to use and more intuitive than the alternatives. The CPU and memory use is a lot lower and the syntax highlighting works as it should be. I always were slightly annoyed whenever I had to use Visual Studio since I got Rider I have not touched Visual Studio again **What do you dislike about Rider?** I had issues when running some versions of Mono in the past but not anymore. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm slighly more happy since I started to use Rider, a good IDE makes a developer happier. ### 44. C# development like it should be **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter S. | Application Developer , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Rider?** I hated to develop in C# when I was in college because of Visual Studio, I'm not a fan at all, a few years later I decided to give it another try, this time with rider after I bought the All products pack from Jetbrains. I still don't like C# but I admit that is not because of the IDE, I'm more of a Java guy, and this ide is so close to IntelliJ IDEA that there is not much to lear, totally recommended. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Price tag by itself is high, as a pack of the All Products Pack is pretty reasonable. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** If you already have tried IntelliJ IDEA you'll love Rider for sure. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** C# thinkering and reading code from my coworkers, I'm the Java Expert but learning to do C# now. ### 45. Clean IDE for reading C# code. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tethys E. | Sales Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Rider?** I'm not a developer anymore, but I still need to read C# code from time to time to make sure I do understand what we are selling out to the finest grained details. This IDE makes that really easy. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Nothing, for the purpuses of what I need this is perfect **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** If you can avoid Visual Studio and use Rider for C# do it. Unless you are a die hard Microsoft fan there is no real reason to use the Default IDE **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reading C# code and from time to time running, building and executing something to make sure it works. ### 46. Rider best cross-platform IDE **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jose luis M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider has greatly improved our business operations in many ways. By using Rider, we have better communication between teams, faster response times, and optimal organization of task management planning. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Rider does not have many unfavorable aspects, but the feature that is least used in my company is the library function; however, this does not mean that the hosting of background information and relevant resources is not user-friendly and beneficial in Rider. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** Rider is a very user-friendly and efficient IT software tool. My company has greatly increased our business operations in many ways thanks to Rider, and I would recommend this tool for companies in a variety of industries. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have considerably improved the way we carry out projects from start to finish, the way different tasks and elements are prioritized, and the way communication occurs between different teams and departments. We have super users of the software and then lower-level users who are capable of performing basic functions. ### 47. Best tool to edit unity C# scripts **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isabelle T. | Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 01, 2019 **What do you like best about Rider?** It's as easy to use as intellij Idea, has great visual cues for colorblind people like me, great for teams developing and mantaining workflow **What do you dislike about Rider?** It's a great product, but still lags behind IntelliJ Idea, It's a mature product, but not as mature as Idea **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** C# editing for unity ### 48. Rider is a solid business efficiency software **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elena O. | Process Improvement Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider has vastly improved our business operations in many ways. By using Rider, we have better communication amongst teams, increased turnaround time, and optimal organization of planning task management. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Rider does not have many unfavorable aspects, but the feature that is utilized the least at my company is library function; but this is not to say that the housing of background information and relevant resources is not user-friendly and beneficial in Rider. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** Rider is a very user-friendly and efficient IT software tool. My company has tremendously increased our business operations in many ways thanks to Rider, and I would recommend this tool for companies across a variety of industries. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have greatly improved the way we conduct projects from start to finish, how different tasks and items are prioritized, and how communication occurs across various teams and departments. We have super users of the software and then lower level users that are able to perform basic functions. ### 49. Delightful to use in Mac **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexis A. | Software Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2018 **What do you like best about Rider?** Rider behaves like a pro in Mac without anything to miss from Visual Studio, indeed, several functions from Resharper are integrated and makes a better experience than VS for Mac or VS Code. I've compared the debugging experience comparing VS for Mac, VS Code and Rider, and Rider gaves me the best option. Unit testing is easy to use. **What do you dislike about Rider?** I think Rider could be better if support for previous ASP.NET MVC versions work better than now in Mac. I've not been able to make a ASP.NET MVC (.NET 4.5) to run under Rider in Mac **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** Rider is by far the best tool in MAC, even if you compare it with VS for Mac, because you will not miss the great experience you enjoy on Visual Studio in Windows and adding the great feeling of Resharper. **What problems is Rider solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop ASP.NET Core and REST Services in RIder in a daily basis, so it is my first option in Mac. Also a note of REST Client directly integrated in the IDE makes Rider the only tool I need for my development tasks. ### 50. Review for Rider **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Rider?** Cool design and IDE style. Smart syntax highlight and auto-correction Good usage or syntax suggestions. Similar environment with any other IDEA products like Intellij and PyCharm. **What do you dislike about Rider?** Large size of the IDE, consume more memory than other IDEs like Visual Studio Still using the same framework and structures of Visual Studio. **Recommendations to others considering Rider:** Could use this and compare to Visual Studio. Choose Rider or Visual Studio for .net related C# development depending on personal habits. Both have strengths and weaknesses. 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